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A string of tornadoes and severe storms left a trail of damage and flooding through Illinois on Sunday, killing at least six people, leveling parts of a town near Peoria, knocking down buildings in Grundy County and forc...

Signs of life re-emerge in Philippine typhoon zone as aid begins to flow     

Fight set to begin over opening Mexico's oil monopoly to private sector, including foreigners     

Tubes used to clear his lungs prevent Nelson Mandela from speaking, and he uses facial expressions to communicate with doctors and family, according to his former wife.

Fuel removal from Japan's crippled nuclear plant is first step toward full cleanup     

A new robotic explorer will blast off later to try to understand how Mars transformed from a watery world to a red, dusty planet.

Francois Hollande, speaking on visit to Israel, says Iran must fulfil four conditions for nuclear deal to take place.

Officials said that 44 people were killed and over 100 were hurt in explosions -- some set off by suicide bombers -- that targeted public spaces and security checkpoints.     

Nicholas Mevoli was competing at Vertical Blue, a championship event in the sport of free diving, where he was attempting to achieve his second American record.     

Beware, New Yorkers. There are two standards of justice at play in this city: one for freakishly entitled celebs who run roughshod over innocent folk, and another for the rest...

Relatives: Police in central Chinese city crack down on church, detaining 20, including pastor     

We need to force the Administration onto the public record to document its claims. If the Administration wants to claim that civilian casualties from drone strikes have been extremely rare, and that those killed were mai...

Shocking statistics are revealed as a campaign is launched aimed at preventing crashes caused by drivers distracted at the wheel.

British warship HMS Daring is in the Philippines, as part of the UK's emergency response to Typhoon Haiyan.

The enigma of KGB spy Kim Philby

The City Council in Tripoli, where the deputy intelligence chief was seized, called a general strike to demand that militias leave the city.     

The company bows to pressure and promises to block tens of thousands of search terms that show depraved images and video.

A bomb attack Sunday against military offices in a suburb of Damascus killed at least 31 Syrian troops, including four high-ranking officers, an opposition group said.

Officials say the shipments will be vulnerable to attack as they travel past the ruins of a war that has raged for two and a half years.     

At least 20 people are killed when a train crashes into a minibus and other vehicles south of Egypt's capital, Cairo, officials say.

The Bloomberg journalist who wrote a controversial spiked story about connections between Chinese billionaires and powerful government officials has been suspended, and will likely lose his job, for leaking the newsroom ...

CAIRO (AP) -- Unknown gunmen shot and killed a senior national security officer in Cairo late Sunday as he headed to his office, the Interior Ministry said.